| Cadman Plaza | |
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 Cadman Plaza Park with theRoosevelt Federal Courthouse to the left | |
 Interactive map of Cadman Plaza | |
| Coordinates | 40°41′53″N73°59′26″W / 40.698121°N 73.990431°W /40.698121; -73.990431 |
Cadman Plaza is a park located on the border of theBrooklyn Heights andDowntown Brooklyn neighborhoods inBrooklyn,New York City. Named forReverend Doctor Samuel Parkes Cadman (1864–1936), a renowned minister in the BrooklynCongregational Church, it is built on land reclaimed by condemnation in 1935 and was named as a park in 1939. The park borders Cadman Plaza West and Cadman Plaza East and the west and east sides of the plaza, respectively.[1]
TheBrooklyn War Memorial andWilliam Jay Gaynor Memorial are installed in the park.
The plaza is bounded by Cadman Plaza East (formerly Washington Street) and Cadman Plaza West (formerly Ferry Road or Fulton Road),[2] and by theBrooklyn Bridge on the north and Tillary Street on the south. East of the park is theTheodore Roosevelt United States Courthouse. South of this park, between Tillary and Johnson Streets, lies the smallKorean War Veterans Plaza. South of Johnson, the Kings County Supreme Court Building andColumbus Park, featuring a statue ofChristopher Columbus, sit on land formerly used as a station for trolley cars. These parks, together withWalt Whitman Park, form a mall fromBrooklyn Borough Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge. In 2015, a "Brooklyn Strand" was proposed to unite these parks.[3]
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